"A Short History of Existentialism" by Jean Wahl. Translated from the French by Forrest Williams and Stanley Maron. Published by The Wisdom Library. A Division of The Philosophical Library, New York, 1949.

Original dust jacket with un-clipped price on the front flap [some wear and small edge creases]; hard boards, 4.3/4" x 7.1/2"; 58 pages including Index, very good condition.

Jean Andre Wahl (1888-1974) was a French anti-systematic philosopher. Wahl was educated at the Ecole Normale Superieure. He became a professor at the Sorbonne in 1936. After German occupation of France, Wahl was interned as a Jew at the Drancy internment camp (north-east of Paris), escaped to the United States. Returning to Paris in 1945, he continued to teach at Sorbonne until 1967.

Jean Wahl began his career as a follower of Henri Bergson and the American pluralist philosophers William James and George Santayana. He is known as one of those introducing Hegelian thought in France in the 1930s. He was also a champion in French thought of the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. Wahl influenced a number of key thinkers including Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Paul Sartre.

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